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I have 2 HDD on my mashine. 1 drive C and the other is partitioned into 4 drives, D-G. I have reformatted the C-drive and reinstalled Win98. The C-drive works just fine but Win98 tells me that there is only one other drive ,D, and that it is unformatted. Fdisk says that the D-drive has a non-DOS partition on it. How has this occured? How can I prevent it in the future? How to recover the lost data?
Name: Bob-NB Date: June 10, 1999 at 11:30:46 Pacific
Reply:
It sounds like you may have an aftermarket partitioning program like Western Digitals EZ Drive on the second HD. If that is so, both Hard drives must use EZ drive. If that is not the case, you should be able to remove the non Dos partition with fdisk. If this doesn't work, I have sometimes needed to run a low-level format on the suspect drive from the BIOS. Good luck. You may be out of luck on the data.
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